Desktop Relevance

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 03/26/2009 05:37 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> The operating system is growing largely irrelevant for casual business =

> users of PCs. If you slowly transition an office over to cross platform=
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> applications, like OpenOffice, Firefox, and Thunderbird, when you do ge=
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> around to switching the OS, they're not likely to notice. Chances are=20
> the differences that impact them will be less than what they experience=
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> in a typical Windows upgrade, given Microsoft's fondness for monkeying =

> with the UI.
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Unfortunately in my office we have some VBA code that is going to be=20
very difficult to port. I'd like to move them over to Open Office for=20
the primary reason is usability on our Linux systems.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
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